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I have no real idea what tomorrow's early weigh in is going to bring. I have actually been really good this week, but I am worried that last weeks clam chowder fest will catch up with me. So I have been trying my old fail safe - when in doubt drink tons and tons of water. This usually helps me when I am in pms stage or have had other things that I think will negatively affect the scale.
This is awesoem because this weeks challenge is WATER, and even though I won't be there for the drawing, I am still trying my darndest to keep on top of it.
The problem: Today, the fateful day beforer weigh in, there was a water main break downtown near where I work. All of the water is brown! Oh no oh no! How do I fill up my WW mug now? How will I ever get all that extra water in? This is a disaster! Luckilly I fulled up 2 water bottles before I left work yesterday, so I have 2 liters, but when I am doing this extra water thing, I like to get in 4 before lunch. I may actually have to pay for the over prices 16 oz bottles in our machines, then when I go to lunch, I'll pick up a couple liters from the store downstairs, where it's way cheaper. What a pain in the ass though!

Another obstacle

Well this tracking on paper thing is harder than I remembered....
I am so used to doing all my tracking on etools, I keep forgetting to carry my paper tracker with me!
Today this is especially bad because it turns out it's a coworkers birthday. This normally wouldn't really phase me, but someone has brought in a GIANT COOKIE CAKE. These are my absolute favorite. And they also brought in Cookies & Creme ice cream - another fav of mine - WHY ME?!?! Well, thankfully I haven't used all my extra points yet, and I have aerobics today(activity points!), but I don't really remember how many extra points I do have. If only I had remembered my tracker! ARG. If I was smart I would have been tracking both places, but I am just not quite that smart.
Anyway, I rarely get to have the cookie cake or the ice cream so by golly I am going to have it. Plus i erlaly have been good all week. I will have a small controlled portion, not have some of the snacks I had planned on having today, and mark off all the extra points and suffer the consequences on Saturday - who knows, I might even get lucky!

Dairy dairy everywhere

So the challenge put before us on Saturday (get in 3 servings of dairy at least five out of 7 days this week and you'll be entered in a drawing) is the sort of thing Robyn and I live for. We are hard core about our dairy this week. After the meeting we stocked up on all things dairy - ice cream bars, ff pudding, string cheese, ect. We are not just shooting for five, we are going for the gold - all seven, baby!

The weekend wasn't that hard for me, but it's getting harder now. I think I need to find some sort of dairy snack to bring in to work. Because I always get one serving in the morning, but then have to get creative at night to get the rest in. And I am officially out of 2 dairy servings SB diet pizza's.

In other news, I was just put on steroids for my poison ivy and the only reason I hesitated calling the doctor about it was because I don't want to bloat for this saturdays weigh in - not when I'm so close to my next 5 lbs. But I suppose my health is more important than the stupid scale, huh?

Skinny people need to be nutritious too. No, really, they do.

At a staff meeting a while ago, it was requested that we have a nutritional seminar. So this Friday a nutritionist from UPMC will be here. At least one person who sits by me is going - the one I probably get along with the least, mostly because our points of view differ so much. A perfect example of that is a comment she made yesterday when she saw the list of who signed up for the seminar. She laughed about two of the people - two very skinny people. She just thought it was hilarious that they would be going to a nutrition seminar. Cause you know, they're thin, so they must be eating healthy. Hah. More likely they are just those lucky types that have a high metabolism. Or, maybe they have tiny frames and want to get off those five pounds. Very few people are 100% happy with their bodies, and I always say that unless you've seen someone naked, you have no right to comment on their weight.

P.S. They are serving lunch at this thing which makes me nervous, so I will be brining in my own back up lunch in just in case - I can't imagine anything they would have that I would be 100% ok with eating. Sandwiches, unless made with light bread can be pretty high point and not very filling - and how will I really know how much to count the bread for? I'll bring my own dressing in case there are salads, but those aren't very filling either.

My incredibly crappola weigh in

I don't know how everyone did on Saturday since Robyn and I had to get weighed in on Friday. I will say that my weigh in made me cry, literally. I wasn't that bad last week, and I guess my body is probably going into one of those getting-used-to-current-weight modes that I haven't had in a while and that I suppose is good for it, but god damn. There is no possibly way now that I will reach the vacation goal I had set for myself. I am angry and frustrated and depressed. I have not given up, I don't want anyone to think that I have, I still counted my points all weekend and never once went for Ben & Jerry's ice cream or a dove chocolate bar, though there were opportunities for sure. And I did not let it ruin my weekend at all. It just pretty much ruined the first hour after it happened, when luckily I had Robyn there to console me and talk me out of stopping at McDonald's for a Sausage McMuffin.

It also pissed me off that the lady weighing me in told me that I went up "a little". Ok, I know that WW receptionists are supposed to be all empathetic and everything, but when someone tells me I went "up a little" I expect less than a pound. So when I look at my card and see something that's way over two pounds, I am indeed going to burst into tears. You WW employees and ww-to-be employees keep that in mind please!